WORDPRESS DEVELOPER

Job description

The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver who will work in coordination with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain our next generation websites and web tools. You will also lead a team of junior developers and designers to execute projects end to end. You must be comfortable working as part of a team while taking the initiative to take lead on new innovations and projects.

Responsibilities

• Development of responsive and SEO friendly web pages in WordPress from Figma designs.
• Developing and maintaining website backend in WordPress or PHP including MySQL database.
• Development of responsive front-end with HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery.
• Development of custom and re-usable components in form of WordPress plugins and themes.
• Doing performance testing and optimizing websites.
• Lead website development for projects, working alongside a team of developers in creating, maintaining, and updating the client's websites
• Oversee the development for website redesign projects by working closely with other internal developers
• Direct the team on sprint requirements and output
• Evaluate completed work and offer answers to roadblocks
• Troubleshoot for website issues and bugs, brainstorm options and provide client-friendly explanations for solutions
• Lead the UX strategy for new web projects to develop the proposed sitemap, wireframes, and user flows, based on the client’s needs
• Complete the front-end development tasks, including website maintenance, plugin updates, CSS improvements, and post creation
• Collaborate directly with designers to implement designs and provide feedback if necessary
• Ensure the websites are client-friendly, and have an intuitive back-end to allow for easy content and page updates
• Participate in client meetings, WordPress back-end training sessions and create training materials as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• A minimum of 2+ years of experience with WordPress custom theme & plugin development
• Prolific experience in WordPress
• Knowledge of front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery.
• Understanding of responsive and SEO friendly web design.
• Strong debugging skills.
• Extensive experience in HTML and CSS
• Demonstrable experience in UX strategy & methodologies
• Prolific experience in JS and building responsive and accessible websites
• Solid understanding of web standards, cross-browser behaviour, and performance
• Develop user-friendly backend with PHP, custom fields, ACF or Gutenberg
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Working ability to translate designs into semantic, accessible front-end code
• Familiarity with web servers and deploying code with GitHub
• Prior experience with Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, or similar design applications
• Nice to have knowledge of SEO and Google Analytics
• Fluent in verbal and written English

Skill-set

PHP, WordPress, Web APIs, Database, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Git version control, CI/CD, SEO, Responsive web design

What we offer

• Growth-oriented culture
• Limitless learning opportunities by working with cutting-edge tech stacks and with a diverse and talented team
• Excellent compensation with competitive benefits and rejuvenation time off
• Flexible work environment
• A chance to make an impact on our business strategy using your work

• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to understand the business context
• Take responsibility for developing product features
• Implement development best practices

• Rich experience in Javascript and front end frameworks like React, Angular or Vue
• Build a backend APIs using Java, Node, Python or GoLang
• Proficiency in leveraging Cloud Native components in AWS, Azure or GCP
• Experience in building scalable applications using Microservices principles is a plus
• Experience in designing for performance is a big plus
• Ability to write high quality code
• Experience in polygot persistence using databases like relational (MySQL, Postgres) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis etc)
• Familiarity with DevOps tools and technologies is a plus
• Passion for continuous learning of new technologies

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions

• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

• Write effective APIs

• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency

• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software

• Create security and data protection settings

• Write technical documentation

• Proven experience in Software Development

• Experience developing web applications

• Knowledge and Understanding  of programming languages(e.g. Java, Python, C, C++) and Understanding JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React, Node.js)

• Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache) 

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

• Great attention to detail

TechUnity is looking for a highly motivated and skilled React JS / React Native software developer who is comfortable with both front and back-end programming. Developer will be designing and implementing attractive and intuitive Web-based user interface and developing backend services to support front-end requests. Developer will be required to see out a project from conception to final product, requiring good organizational skills and attention to detail.

Other Responsibilities:

• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product
• Designing and coding of frontend web architecture
• Designing user interactions on web pages
• Developing backend server architecture
• Creating specification for servers and databases needed
• Ensuring responsive performance of applications.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs.
• Staying abreast of developments in web applications and programming languages
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal communication skills

We’re looking for Full Stack Developer who will take a key role on our team. As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. If you’re also familiar with Agile methodologies, we’d like to meet you.

• Design overall architecture of the web application.
• Participating in the design and creation of scalable software
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team to design and launch new features
• Maintain code integrity and organization
• Experience working with graphic designers and converting designs to visual elements
• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection

• Experience of full stack web development, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 and Python. DevOps knowledge is a plus
• Troubleshooting issues and problem solving as necessary
• Developing functional databases, applications and servers to support our websites on the back end.
• Coding for various platforms to ensure functionality across multiple channels.
• Leading and developing best practices for Full Stack Developer team.
• Developing and designing RESTful services and APIs

• #HTML/HTML5
• #CSS/CSS3
• #JavaScript
• #BootStrap
• #Jquery
• #Git

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

• Minimum 2 years of experience

• C#
• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET
• Core
• jQuery
• JavaScript
• Angular
• MS SQL Server
• JSON
• Web API

Merkle|Sokrati, a leader in Paid Search & Social Advertising, provides a sophisticated technology solution to efficiently manage Digital Marketing campaigns for several brands in India. The technology developed takes a beating of serving and tracking 20M+ impressions a day. It runs crunching algorithms and keyword discovery routines using distributed computing, housing the entire data in distributed caches and sharded MySQL databases.

To be a geek at Merkle|Sokrati you need to know how to build scalable and high-performance systems. Nothing at Sokrati is small. We start with a proof of concept that demands a traffic rate of 10M+! To achieve any of this you need to understand Distributed Systems, Distributed Caching, High-scale Databases. And we possess the skills to create software that makes this entire heterogeneous system function together even if it runs on 100 boxes. A system that is so widely used cannot sustain any downtime and hence it uses elegant high-availability techniques to survive an outage. Not many startups can say “been there, done that”!

@Merkle|Sokrati, you will:

• Implement solutions for broadly defined problems
• Drive best practices and engineering excellence
• Be involved in the development of code in object-oriented languages like Java etc and build large scale robust distributed systems
• Be involved in full fledged product development.
• Build New Features, Push them to production fast.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack
• Build services or APIs which will for easy application integrations at Sokrati to develop applications faster.
• Build scalable/fault-tolerant backend systems that process and analyze billions of data points every day.

You'd fit right in if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in building successful production software systems
• A solid grounding in Computer Science fundamentals (based on a BE/BTech or MS in Computer Science)
• Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.
• Mastery of the tools of the trade, including a variety of modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript, C/C++) and open-source technologies (Linux, Spring)
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, agile and in an ownership and results oriented culture

If you are excited about:

• Having an unmatched startup experience that allows you to work on bleeding-edge technologies.
• Making a splash in a multi-billion dollar Digital Advertising industry
• Learning & Growing far beyond your current horizon
• A place full of like-minded & ridiculously smart folks
• A start-up culture that you'd cherish forever in your work life

Feel like you are a good fit? We would love to hear from you!